Ask Marian instead of searching

Marian is Bookroo's assistant for teachers. Open a class you own or are an admin of, then click Ask Marian at the bottom of the sidebar or press Cmd/Ctrl + K. Ask in plain words. You can also click Ask Marian on your class's Resources page, or type your question in the Ask Marian box here in the Help Center: you'll land in your class with Marian already answering. She answers how-to questions from these help articles, too. Co-teachers with View or Edit access don't see her. In the demo class she answers only her question buttons, about its pretend students.

Things she can do today:

• "Who hasn't read this week?"
• "Who hasn't signed in yet?"
• "What's our class code?"
• "Who hasn't read in two weeks?"
• "Who wrote two book reflections last week?" (she counts them; what students wrote stays on the Book reflections page)
• "How is {student} doing?"
• "How's my class doing?"
• "Set a goal of 100 pages a week"
• "Set up a reading challenge"
• "Ava and Leo finished Holes" or "We're on page 40 of Holes"
• "Print sign-in cards for students who haven't signed in"
• "Is there a quiz for Holes?"
• "Any quiz requests?" or "Request a quiz for Holes"
• "How did the class do on quizzes in October?" or "Who read the most last month?"
• "Make students type a password before quizzes"
• "Why can't Ava take her quiz on Holes?" (she checks Ava's retake dates, ZPD, quiz password and quiz times, and her word lists and Level Checks)
• "Ava doesn't need to take the quiz for Holes" (Marian certifies the book, so it counts without a quiz)
• "Who's reading below grade level?"
• "Set Ava's ZPD to 450L to 600L"
• "Play last week's recap"
• "Anything I owe the kids?" (rewards to hand out)

Anything that changes your class (a new goal, logged reading, a certified book, a quiz password, a ZPD, a book added by its ISBN) shows you a card first, and happens only when you click Approve. A challenge waits on its card until you click Start challenge. A quiz request is sent as soon as you ask, since it only asks Bookroo to write the quiz; you'll see its status on the Quizzes page, and Marian can put it on a particular student's dashboard if you tell her who. Sign-in cards are ready to download as soon as you ask. Marian never changes anything on her own.

Student names stay in Bookroo. They're never sent to the AI model. Type a student's name as you'd say it: a small misspelling is fine, and the box shows which student it reads it as before you send. If Marian still can't tell who you mean, she asks, with buttons for the students whose names are closest to what you typed.

If your school has turned Marian off, or you turned her off for your class (Settings → Marian: click on in "Marian, Bookroo's AI assistant, is on for this class" and choose off), the button doesn't appear. If she can't help yet, she'll point you to the right page, and offer to ask the Bookroo team: click Send to the team and a person reads your conversation with her and emails you the answer, usually within one school day.